The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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! Corn-No. 2, 35L@351zc Oats-No 2, 261le.
/ Rye-No ], SIC. Barley-No. 2, 571zc.
! At the meeting of the Farmers Institute
| in OconomoWoc a few days ago fully one
| thousand persons were present, and the
dedication of a new city hall formed part
of the programme.
| There are forty three logging camps in
the immediate vicinity of Fifeld, Price
/ County.
The people of Marinette made up purse
of $500 Tor the widowed mother of j. a.
| Hofmeister, the young man recently killed
| by shock while handling an electric light
| at that place.
The lumber cut by the North Wisconsin
company at Hayward during 1886 amount
ed to 81, 100000 feet; shipments, 81 ,50O, 900
| feet; stock on hand, $4,000, 900 feet; amount
of logs banked to January 1, 100000 feet;
| estimated cut this winter 25, 10000 feet
NJ Fl. Perkins, one of the leading BUSH
ness men of Hudson, st. Croix County,
and member of the village council,
dropped dead the other morning of heart
| disease, aged thirty-seven years.
George w. Lusted, of Lancaster, the.
mail agent who was injured in the recent
Pine Bluff smash-up, has brought suit
l bu0 OulCdSO O. NUTGnW6SL6Fn HALL
way Company for 600 damages
The students of the State University az
| ricultural class have formed a debating So
ciety and have named it the Greeley Soci-
ETY., in honor of Horace Greeley, who was
| once farmer
The Beloit police have recently exposed
a gang of shoplifters-women residing in
that city-who had pilfered from the stores
for several months.
| On the ground that the contract was
based on gambling operation, the county
| court at Milwaukee recently dismissed the
suit of Daniel Wells against Peter Nc
| Geoch for $500, 900 alleged to be due on the
| famous lard deal of 1880.
| j. B. Button was removed from the post
office at Augusta, Eau Claire County, the
other day by Inspector Darlington, who
discovered shortage of 1888 in Buttons
accounts. His bondsmen made good the
| loss.
| j. Ell. Wagner, of Sheboygan, had his
neck broken the other day by a runaway
/ horse
| During the past season 1,414,772 pounds
| OF fish were caught in the Bayfield, district
that returned $40,927.2S. The fishing out
fits are valued at $35, 430, and the business
employed about $50 men. The catch was
! SOS, 900 pounds short of that of the previous
| year.
At Milwaukee few nights ago the stock
of Samuel Uecht & Co., fur dealers, was
damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000
| William Johnson, a wealthy farmer Hv-
| ing near Chimney Rock, Trempealeau
County, fell from his sleigh in an intoxi-
Gated condition the other night and was
found frozen stiff the next morning He
| leaves a wife and family.
Andy Ryan, aged eighty-four years, one
| of the first settlers of Erin, ST. Croix
County, died at the Home of the Little
Sisters of the Poor in Milwaukee a few
] days ago. His remains were sent to Hart
| ford for interment
| Lee Chadwick, brakeman on the Me-
nomonee branch of the Chicago, Mil
waukee 6 st. Paul railway, fell from a
train at Dunnville the other day and was
instantly killed His home was at Wa
basha, Mimi.
Christ A. Wennerberg, Swede en-
| ployed in Frazer's camp near Eau Claire,
was struck on the head by falling tree
| recently with such force as to break his
neck and crush his jaw, causing death in
stantly
/ LIZ ". L dUUGISO1, VI DSlOlU, udV1up De-
come wreck from the use of cocaine, was
recently sent to jail for twenty days on a
charge of vagrancy
| William W. Newell, one of the most dill.
| gent and sanguine prospectors in Wiscon-
sin, has in his possession very fine speci.
men of kaolin, which he obtained not far
from Eau Claire. He says that the deposit
of this variety of clay is abundant, and in
/ a rnmarlx0h1u Ctatp yuhnro ho ODD
| the find.
| Wisconsin sends twenty-one students to
! Harvard University this year.
In the past seven years there were 1879
cases of scarlet fever in Milwaukee, and
| 49S deaths from the disease. In the same
| length of time there were 2,778 cases of
diphtheria and 800 deaths.
| Valsel Easily, of Spencer, Marathon Coun.
| ty, while cleaning snow from the roof of
a saw-mill a few days ago lost his balance
and fell through skylight, striking on q
| running saw. The saw cut every rib at the
spinal column and entered his lungs. He
| died in short time.
Thieves broke into John Burgers meat
market at Beloit the other night and stole
eleven hams, twenty-five pounds of sau-
sage, a few chickens, fifty pounds of salt
| pork and twenty pounds of fresh meat.
Jacob Sloggy, an old settler of Adams
| County, died at Ontario, Vernon County,
recently, from the effects of palsy He
was born in the town of New Castle, Pa,
IN 1902. He served as a soldier in the re-
| bellion, was wounded in the battles of
Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing, and was
| pensioner.
There is great demand in Green Bay
| for men to work in the woods
| An elderly lady rose from her seat when
the conductor of the Chicago, Milwaukee &c
st. Paul road called out Scamp Douglas"
| few mornings ago, went to the platform
| and stepped off. The train was running at
| nearly ordinary speed. When picked up
she did not appear to be seriously injured.
| Marinette is the largest unincorporated
| place in the State. An effort is being made
among her citizens to incorporate as city
| this winter.
| A company has been formed to introduce
| the culture of fax in Brown County, and
| fifteen thousand pounds of seed have been
ordered from Europe.
An Prohibition League has been or
ganized at Hurley.
| The pastor of st. Anthony's Catholic
Church at Milwaukee recently asked Gov
ernor Rusk to pardon Mahlon Mccullough
/ and William Puetz, two youths, who near
| ly three years ago were convicted of hav-
| ing shot and robbed a Milwaukee street.
! car driver. The priest stated that the
| guilty man acknowledged the crime to
him while at confession, and he must not
make his name public.
| A passenger train on the Burlington road
ran into sleigh-load of people at cross
ing mile south of Nelson, Buffalo County,
few evenings ago, killing Alexander De-
! camp, of Wabash, and seriously and per-
haps fatally injrring William Mailer, J. E.
I Eichenberger and James Kane, all of Wa
| bash.
! An employe in Alexander S logging camp
! on Sand lake, north of Eau Claire, named
j Erickson, got his leg fastened in a skidway
few days ago, and heavy logrolled over
him, crushing his head and the upper part
of his body into a jelly. The home of
the deceased was at Boomer, Chippewa
| County.
| Chippewa parties have contracted to put
| up ten thousand telegraph poles along the
| line of the 500 road